The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK

l YORK, on the zOJn, granted q stay III
the execution of the Judgment in Jacob
Sharp's care until an appeal shall be
decided by the General Term. The
stay is granted on the ground that the
court of trial erred in the admission of
certain testimony against the prisoner.
The Prohibition State Convention
at Harrisburg, on the 25th, nominated
Simeon b. Chase, of Easton, for SUI
preme Judge, and Captain ID. G. Irish,
of New Castle, for State Treasurer.
Charles S. Wolfe was chosen chairman
of the State Committee. He appointed
an Executive Committee, with James
Black as chairman, to aid in the con-
duct Of the campaign
-Grovesteen & Pell, stock brokers,
! of New York, made an assignment on
the 25th. II is stated that their liabil-
tiles amount to 81, 500, 900 most of
which are secured by East and West
Alabama and Rome and Decatur Rail-
road bonds. Also that most of their
liabilities are due to thirty different
banks, and that they 1--WE about $780,
600 to Stock Exchange members.
Their hypothecated securities were Of
fered under the rule at tie Stock Ex-
change ON the Oath. The First National
Bank of Dansville, New York, failed
on the 25th. 1t had been letting its
notes go to protest. Its capital stock
was $50, 900, and its surplus, according
to the last report $22, 1000.
james Ledwith aud George II.
Chan plain, painters, were killed by
the fall of a scaffold from a church in
Hartford, Connecticut, on the morn
ing of the 25Jh.
Emanuel Zwalley and Henry
Fisher. about IA years of age, were
drowned in the Conestoga creek. near
Lancaster, Penna., on the afternoon of
the 21st. Zwalley attempted to save
Fisher from drowning, and went down
with him.
I'm Wheeling. West Virginia, on
the 10Th, nearly 5000 members of the
Grand Army of the Republic, Union
Veterans Legion, Sons Of Veterans
and regimental organizations had a
parade. 1t was headed by carriages
containing Gov. Beaver, Gov. Foraker,
Governor Wilson, Hon. John A. Blng-
ham, ex. Governor Pierrepont. ex-
President Hayes, General P. F. Kelly,
Congressman Golf and other Dustin
guished visitors. Pittsburg sent 1900
soldiers who formed the first division.
At the Register office was displayed a
banner IA by ~ feet, with President
Cleveland's picture and the words:
"God bless our President, Commander
In Chief of the Army and Navy of the
United States" When the Pittsburg
G. A. r. Posts reached this, they at
FIRST refused to proceed, but soon com
promised and marched around the ban
ner. All the G. A. r. followed Their
example, but the Union Veteran Le-
elon marched under amid hearty
cheers. In the afternoon a meeting
in the tent wss addressed by Genera
Hayes, General Wilson, Governor For
aker and Governor Beaver. Governor
Foraker dweit on the Rebel flag order.
at night Governor Wilson, In a speech.
at the Mcclure House, objected to the
word "Rebelr and made some political
illusions which Foraker answered. and
each made three or four speeches
pretty warm at times. 1.-THE crowd OF
10, 600 cheered and Kissed and altogether
the scene was never equalled In Wheel
ing, if elsewhere"
1t Is reported from Galena, Illinois,
that, within two or three days past, the
fish in many Of the streams of that sec
ton '.have died by the Million" and
the few that are left are rapidly SOL
lowing suit" The banks of the Galena
river branches are lined with dead fish
of all sizes and varieties. AT Bun
combe, Wisconsin, a few miles from
Galena, ''dead fish are so numerous on
the banks that the stencil arising from
them is almost unbearable." at Ian
caster, Wisconsin, upwards of fifty
wagon loads of dead fish are in sight
One of the theories as to the cause is
that the recent rains have filled the
water with mud, so that the fish have
been unable to breathe, and, struggling
to the surface for air, have died." An
other is 4 that during the dry, hot sum-
mer, "the valleys and marshes above
were filled with some poisonous growth
that. with the recent floods, was car
ried into The streams and poisoned the
water"
w. j. Burk, the ~defaulting Treas
urer of Galveston county, Texas, who
disappeared last November-a short
age OF $40, 900 having been found IN his
acknowledgement in the office OF the
Associated Press in San Francisco Oh
the 18th, and said he desired to return
to Galveston and plead guilty. He re-
turned SIS, QUO worth of bonds, and ex-
hibited a receipt showing that he had
shipped the bonds by express. He said
he would wait in San Francisco until
the 29th, for a ticket OF deputy sheriff
from Galveston, and If neither arrived,
he would deliver himself up to the
sheriff In San Francisco.
j. A.. Werner, President, and G..
Fl. Shops, Cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank, OF Burlington, Iowa, were
arrested on the Goth, on the charge OF
embezzling funds of the bank which
recently failed. Tie amount of the loss
was about SAC, 900.
An explosion in the engine room
of a canning factory at Gorham,
Maine, on the morning of the Goth,
killed John Hamlin and fatally injured
Frederick Hamlln. An explosion OF
gas. caused by a leak in the basement
of Leopold Brothers, wholesale cloth
ing store IN Chicago, on the afternoon
of the Goth, blew up part of the side
walk and fatally injured Patrick Gaf-
hey, who had been searching for the
leak. Another man was injured, bull
not dangerously.
Professor III. s. Whitney, of the
Excelsior Academy at Lake Mime
tonka, Minnesota, was drowned on the
25th, while trying to save three child.
rem who were playing on a raft which
went to pieces. Two of the children
were rescued, the third was drowned
"A courier arrived at Glenwood
Springs, Colorado, on the 9th. with
news of a fight on the 25th between
Kendall's band and the Indians in a
small canyon between the mountains.
six miles west Of Rangely. The In
dams had planned an ambush, but the
scouts discovered it. The firing was
kept up for two hours and wasfollowed
by skirmish shots until nightfall. John